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WATCH THE LIVE ON CAMERA CLASS
1.We met Hilary Ward who tells us her story of triumph from no work to new reps and recurring roles.
2.Then we watch April coach Medina Senghore's audition using two different chords for the same character.
3 Day Intensive
DreamingOutLoud Emotional Chords
Audition Technique Workshop
WHEN
May 19 - 21st
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
9am-12pm (Mountain Time)
WHAT
You'll learn how to:
- Identify your emotional chord for a given scene
- Learn the 9 Times Fast memorization technique
- Stir in a bit of script analysis to get the importance info you need to add texture to the character
- Apply the Emotional Chord to the Side or Role
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SHOP
3 Day Emotional Type
Audition Technique Intensive
Are you
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WHAT IS AN EMOTIONAL TYPE?
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“When I called April,
it was after I had been
particularly frustrated.
My scenes were cut from
a career making, high profile film.
April said,
“Well, why don't you
write something for yourself?”
I did April's
DreamingOutLoud Emotional
Type Technique
& realized that an idea that I had
was the perfect vehicle for me to
not only play one of my chords,
but also something I was really
passionate about.
So she put me on a writing schedule.
Through this process,
what I'm starting to learn
is that outer experience
is an expression of inner reality.
As my inner reality shifted,
my experience in the business
began to shift.
As I understood that I'm not an actor
who has to wait around for
someone to choose her
waiting around for the phone to ring,
doing her best at auditions and
giving away all her power.
April is the person
who was able to make me realize
what I have to bring to the table &
how I can put that forward.
So I am driving the direction of my career
& not getting buffeted about by whatever
trend comes up or whatever job happens
to become available or whatever people
think black girls are in right now.
Because I'm not here for a trend,
I'm here for the long haul.
So, BadAsses:
April --This is your leader,
go find her,
be BOLD,
be BRAVE
STAND UP
for YOURSELF
& stand up
for your
DREAMS.”
--Hilary Ward, Actor/Writer/Producer
(The Fosters, Sharp Objects, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy)
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April Yvette Thompson
is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor working across media. Film/TV credits include BULL, Blue Caprice, Gotham, Blue Bloods, Babylon Fields, The Exonerated (w/Susan Sarandon & Delroy Lindo), Accidental Husband, Backwards, Babylon Fields, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc. Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty City The Exonerated(w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, etc
As SimonSays Entertainment Director of Development, April produced Sundance features: Blue Caprice (w/Isaiah Washington), Mother of George (w/Danai Gurira), Gun Hill Road (w/Esai Morales). April was on the Tony-winning producing teams for 2017 Tony for Best Revival for August Wilson's Jitney directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson and 2012 Tony for Best Revival, Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald (Tony).
April wrote, produced & starred in her Miami Trilogy of plays: Good Bread Alley and Liberty City (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel noms & Jeff Award) at New York Theatre Workshop. Her latest play, Black Lives is in development at NYTW. April has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Harlem School of the Arts, University of Zimbabwe, Maggie Flanigan Studio and various Universities throughout the United States as a Teaching Artist for The Acting Company. April has served as Artist in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club, 651 Arts, NYTW and Director/Founder of the The Children’s Defense Fund’s Fundi Freedom Schools where she developed Arts in Education Curriculum for 1500 at-risk students.
EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA and Rutgers University, MFA AprilYvetteThompson.com
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